Carol Goodman

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  • Bibliography:
    25 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 2002
  • Latest Book:
    July 2025
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Full Series List in Order

A Blythewood Novel

1 - Blythewood (Oct-2013)
2 - Ravencliffe (Dec-2014)
3 - Hawthorn (Dec-2015)

Book List in Order: 25 titles

  • The Lake of Dead Languages

    Twenty years ago, Jane Hudson fled the Heart Lake School for Girls in the Adirondacks after a terrible tragedy. The week before her graduation, in that sheltered wonderland, three people died, all victims of suicide. Only Jane was left to carry the b...

  • Seduction of Water

    Iris Greenfeder, ABD (All But Dissertation), feels the “buts” are taking over her life: all but published, all but a professor, all but married. Yet the sudden impulse to write a story about her mother, Katherine Morrissey, leads to a shot at lit...

  • The Drowning Tree

    Juno McKay intended to avoid the nearby campus of her alma mater during her fifteenth reunion weekend, but she just can't turn down the chance to see her longtime friend, Christine Webb, speak at the Penrose College library. Though Juno cringes at th...

  • The Ghost Orchid

    For more than one hundred years, creative souls have traveled to Upstate New York to work under the captivating spell of the Bosco estate. Cradled in silence, inspired by the rough beauty of overgrown gardens and crumbling statuary, these chosen few ...

  • The Sonnet Lover

    For how thy memory has lingered on -- In spite of cruelest winter's drear and howl -- By inner mirror seen; I've dwelled upon, I must confess, my treachery most foul. Did Shakespeare pen a series of passionate sonnets, unknown to modern schol...

  • The Little Mysteries

  • The Night Villa

    An evocative tale of intrigue, romance, and treachery, Carol Goodman’s spellbinding new novel, The Night Villa, follows the fascinating lives of two remarkable women centuries apart. The eruption of Italy’s Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79 buried a ci...

  • Arcadia Falls

    Financial straits and a desire for a fresh start take recently widowed Meg Rosenthal and her aloof teenage daughter, Sally, to Arcadia Falls, a tucked-away hamlet in upstate New York where Meg has accepted a teaching position at a boarding school. Th...

  • Incubus



  • Dark Possession

  • Blythewood

    A Blythewood Novel - 1

    Welcome to Blythewood. At seventeen, Avaline Hall has already buried her mother, survived a horrific factory fire, and escaped from an insane asylum. Now she’s on her way to Blythewood Academy, the elite boarding school in New York’s mist-shr...

  • Ravencliffe

    A Blythewood Novel - 2

    Avaline Hall is no ordinary girl. She’s a student at Blythewood Academy, an elite boarding school that trains young women to defend human society from the shadowy forces that live among us. After the devastating events of her first year at Bly...

  • Hawthorn

    A Blythewood Novel - 3

    A world on the brink of war. All Avaline Hall wants is to enjoy her senior year at Blythewood Academy, the boarding school where she’s been trained to defend humankind from forces of dark magic. But when Ava is shown a glimpse into the future ...

  • River Road

    From the award-winning author of The Lake of Dead Languages comes a chilling new psychological thriller about a professor accused of killing her favorite student in a hit-and-run accident. Nan Lewis -- a creative writing professor at a state unive...

  • The Metropolitans

    From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler meets The Apothecary in this time-bending mystery from bestselling author Carol Goodman! The day Japan bombs Pearl Harbor, four thirteen-year-olds converge at the Metropolitan Museum of Art wher...

  • The Widow's House

    This chilling novel from the bestselling, award-winning author of The Lake of Dead Languages blends the gothic allure of Daphne DuMaurier’s Rebecca and the crazed undertones of Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s The Yellow Wallpaper with the twisty, cont...

  • The Other Mother

    A gripping novel about madness, motherhood, love, and trust. When Daphne Marist and her infant daughter, Chloe, pull up the gravel drive to the home of Daphne’s new employer, it feels like they’ve entered a whole new world. Tucked in the Catsk...

  • The Night Visitors

    The latest thriller from the internationally bestselling author of The Lake of Dead Languages and The Other Mother, a story of mistaken identities and missed chances, forgiveness, and vengeance. ALICE gets off a bus in the middle of a snowstorm in...

  • The Sea of Lost Girls

    In the tradition of Daphne du Maurier, Shari Lapena, and Michelle Richmond comes a new thriller from the bestselling author of The Lake of Dead Languages -- a twisty, harrowing story set at a prestigious prep school in which one woman’s carefully h...



  • The Stranger Behind You

    A chilling story set in a former Magdalen Laundry in Manhattan that explores today’s #MeToo complexities. You’re never really alone Journalist Joan Lurie has written a seething article exposing a notorious newspaper tycoon as a sexual preda...

  • Water Witch

  • The Disinvited Guest

    From two-time Mary Higgins Clark Award-winning author Carol Goodman comes a new mystery, about a group of friends isolated on a remote island with a history of foul play. Lucy Harper still has traumatic memories and lingering health problems from ...

  • The Bones of the Story

    The twisty locked-room mystery from two-time Mary Higgins Clark Award"winning author Carol Goodman, about a group of former classmates trapped on their college campus -- with a murderer among them."One of the best and smartest locked-room mysteries...

  • Return to Wyldcliffe Heights

    Jane Eyre meets The Thirteenth Tale in this new modern gothic mystery from two-time Mary Higgins Clark Award"winner Carol Goodman, about a reclusive writer who is desperate to rewrite the past.Losing yourself inside of a book can be dange...

  • Writers and Liars

    In the latest thrilling suspense novel from Mary Higgins Clark Award"winning author Carol Goodman, a group of mystery authors gathers on a secluded Greek island for a writers retreat, only to discover that their enigmatic host has been murdered and...

Award-Winning Books by Carol Goodman

The Night Visitors
2020 Edgar Allan Poe Award -- Mary Higgins Clark Award
Seduction of Water
2004 Hammett -- Best Novel
The Widow's House
2018 Edgar Allan Poe Award -- Mary Higgins Clark Award


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Carol Goodman has published 25 books.

The next book by Carol Goodman, Writers and Liars, will be published in July 2025.

The first book by Carol Goodman, The Lake of Dead Languages, was published in January 2002.

Yes. Carol Goodman has 1 series.
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